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Early Talk 0-5 years is I CAN’s flagship early years programme, developed over a decade. It supports early years staff to help children develop the speech, language and communication skills they need to start school. It also offers a framework which ensures best practice in settings.
This programme has expanded more recently to include help for the very youngest children, and to offer training and resources to parents and a wide range of staff and settings. In 2012, Early Talk 0-5 years was updated to reflect the focus on communication and language in the revised Early Years Foundation Stage.

This excellent resource makes this complex area of language development accessible to non-specialist staff. fAll those working in the field will appreciate the clear explanations and practical support and advice for those working and living with children at the pre-intentional and intentional stages of communication as far as beginning to use first words. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning children who have little or no means of expressing themselves verbally.
Language Builders for Complex Needs provides ideas for assessment and recording progress as well as detailed advice and practical activities. It is written for speech and language therapists, teachers, teaching assistants, pre-school practitioners and parents.
The book examines the characteristic communication skills, the interaction required and the thinking and play skills that need nurturing at each of the following stages:
Pre-Intentional Communication.
Being able to anticipate events.
Intentional Communication.
It also considers:
The link between play and language.
Total Communication – signs, symbols, Communication Passports, and briefly, Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Using first words, ideas and phrases.